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...accolades for Weiler have already begun to accumulate in mass numbers, as the talented freshman won the IC4A Indoor Championship, the Battle of Beantown, the HYP meet, and qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships with a jump of 5.20 meters, which was good enough second-best in Crimson history...
...further than the Harvard softball team. Winners of the 2008 Ivy League North Division title—and runners-up in the Ivy League Championship Series—the Crimson has a great amount of all-around talent. This year, the players are not willing to settle for second-best like they had to last season. They are ready to go all the way and reclaim their title.“To lose to [Princeton] in the Ivy championship was just heartbreaking,” co-captain Bailey Vertovez says. “Coming out, our opening Ivy games...
...highlight of the day for the men was Nico Weiler’s personal-best—and a second-best in program history—effort in the pole vault. He cleared the bar at 5.20 meters, winning the event by .3 meters. With the crowd and team cheering him on, he then attempted three times to break the program’s all-time record of 5.30 meters...
...Hoyle will face an opponent who averages 3.7 goals per game. BU has put together a five-game winning streak, including a 3-1 victory over Merrimack on Friday night that saw the Terrier’s long-time coach, Jack Parker, earn his 800th career win. As the second-best team in the country, the Terriers bring all the usual attributes of a top-ranked squad to both ends of the ice. The Terriers bring a stingy defense led by senior Matt Gilroy, a two-time All-American whose name has already been mentioned as a natural choice...
...Leads the sport in stolen bases (1,406), by almost fifty percent more than the second-best base stealer, former Cardinal Lou Brock (938). Leads the sport in runs scored (2,295) and leadoff homers (81), and has the second-most walks ever (2,190). Holds the record for most bases stolen in a single season...